CPUSE acting up today

Today I ran into a really weird problem on a VSX cluster. I was trying to run installer with jumbo 154, and the installer kept telling me there was a need to upgrade as the version was not the latest, it was 1573.

All morning in an chat and trying to get past this point, in the beginning of the afternoon, after lunch and a reboot all the sudden there was a different message, please update to the later version 1577 (the CPUSE SK was still saying 1573 was the latest), so installer agent update, but still it cannot get the update file. Problem was the same on both members.

Maybe someone at Check Point was to quick in setting the version number on the update server?

On 1 of the 2 members I completely removed the deployment agent with rpm and then reinstalled, stopped clishd and confd as instructed. Now all the sudden I could use the imported packed (had to import again) package for Jumbo 154, Only issue was it needed to uninstall the Jumbo 103 before the Jumbo 154 could be installed and it failed as the jumbo 103 was no longer available in the CPUSE repository. According to sk115243 you can easily add it back in by adding the folder and the package file in a directory in /var/log/CPda/repository. When i followed the instructions in this SK and as a final step started the DAClient again, it instantly removes the folder again, bringing you back to square 1.

Tomorrows another day and I will try again to get the deployment agent to stop acting up.

According to FAQ, you should be able to install the latest R80.10 Take without uninstalling the current (older) Take in case you did exactly the same procedure as for the older one (CPUSE or Legacy CLI method).

Actually I have seen on couple of occasions when packages mysteriously disappear from repository. In my case it was non-VSX from memory (at least the last one)

Normally copying them back fixed it but it may have taken few attempts. And there was a trick to either do it with CLI or WebUI but for some reason it was failing with one even though it shouldn't make a difference

As you said - it does act really weird occasionally, I mean CPUSE. Not a lot of help though..

Info: Initiating install of Check_Point_R80_10_JUMBO_HF_Bundle_T154_sk116380_FULL.tgz...Interactive mode is enabled. Press CTRL + C to exit (this will not stop the operation)Result: A new critical update was found (DeploymentAgent_000001577_1.tgz), please download and install it first

OK, found one of my gateways could not update to the latest CPINFO version using CPUSE for the same reason - couldn't find old package in repository. And I observed the same issue with directory disappearing after DA restart.

So in addition to steps described in SK, I ended up fixing file permissions and ownership and it seemed to work.

Create required directory first for required package i.e this was for CPINFO ver 182

there should be a backup dir in the /opt/CPda/ this also was lost, I could not get it from the other box anymore as it was removed there after the upgrade to Jumbo 154 so had to use another system that had plain R80.10 on it, install Jumbo 103 and collect the backup dir, copy it to the system and now it is happily removing Jumbo 103.